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After John Brown's capture, he was put to trial for his life in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia)
After John Brown's captur…
Barber Shop
Barber Shop
Dreams #1
Dreams #1
Forward
Forward
John Brown formed an organization among the colored people of the Adirondack woods to resist the capture of any fugitive slave
John Brown formed an orga…
Rain
Rain
Street Orator's Audience
Street Orator's Audience
Subway Home from Work
Subway Home from Work
The Brown Angel
The Brown Angel
The Migration Series, Panel no. 1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 11: Food had doubled in price because of the war.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 15: There were lynchings.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of planters.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 19: There had always been discrimination.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 23: The migration spread.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 31: The migrants found improved housing when they arrived north.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 33: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 37: Many migrants found work in the steel industry.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 41: The South was desperate to keep its cheap labor. Northern labor agents were jailed or forced to operate in secrecy.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 43: In a few sections of the South leaders of both Black and White communities met to discuss ways of making the South a good place to live.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 51: African Americans seeking to find better housing attempted to move into new areas. This resulted in the bombing of their new homes.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 53: African American, long-time residents of northern cities met the migrants with aloofness and disdain.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 55: The migrants, having moved suddenly into a crowded and unhealthy environment, soon contracted tuberculosis. The death rate rose.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 57: The female workers were the last to arrive north.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 59: In the North they had the freedom to vote.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery.
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop.
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